Overtones is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERTONES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OVERTONE, in music, a higher partial tone
• a musical tone which is a part of the harmonic series above a fundamental note, and may be heard with it.
• a component of any oscillation whose frequency is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency.
• a subtle or subsidiary quality, implication, or connotation

Words related to OVERTONES

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How to use OVERTONES in a sentence

• Subversion and manipulation of the phone system is an act with disturbing political overtones.
• William Cook was a strong believer in high-profile prosecutions with symbolic overtones.
• The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music and the hissing consonants in speech.
• The presence of overtones determines the quality of the sound produced.
• If, on the other hand, it vibrates in such a way that overtones are present, the tone given forth is full and rich and the sensation is pleasing.
• The untrained ear is not conscious of overtones and recognizes only the strong dominant fundamental.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones.
• Mechanical differences in construction account for prominent and numerous overtones in some instruments and for feeble and few overtones in others.
• It is really the presence or absence of overtones which enables us to distinguish the note of the piano from that of the violin, flute, or clarinet.
• If overtones could be eliminated, then middle C, or any other note on the piano, would be indistinguishable from that same note sounded on any other instrument.
• The fundamental note in every instrument is the same, but the overtones vary with the instrument and lend individuality to each.
• Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones.
• This breath, by forming the overtones, makes certain the connection with the resonance of the head cavities.
• Thereby breath is introduced into the cavities of the head to form the overtones, which contribute brilliancy and freshness to the voice.
• The magic of youth, freshness, is given by the overtones that sound with every tone.
• Practically all musical tones, whether vocal or instrumental, are made up of the ground tone and certain others less loud and prominent, and the latter are the overtones.
• It might be said that the voice-user should endeavor to keep out of his voice certain overtones, especially those which are not within the range of our modern harmonies.
• Overtones, and their bearing on the quality of the voice.
• In this standard tone there must be a fundamental combined with certain overtones.
• Can a tone be disagreeable and still be scientifically produced? One combination of fundamental and overtones is, strictly speaking, just as scientific as another combination.
• The flute tone with its two overtones is just as scientific as the string tone with its six or eight.
• They produce in it their correspondences, several octaves higher, in the same manner as a musical note produces overtones.
• The advocates of monogamy, deceived by its moral overtones, fail to get all the advantage out of it that is in it.
• The peal of a hermit thrush filled the silence with its golden, largo chime and overtones and died away and rang out again and again.

Similar words containing OVERTONE without suffix s

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